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Some files within your storage environment can obviously be discarded, but how do you know which files to keep? How do you know what kinds of files are being stored, their ages, and who owns them, so that you can clean out your storage space? You could use a feature within Storage Manger , the storage performance…
Managing files has always been a challenge, and even in today's world of virtualization, automatic tiering and migration, finding out what files are really out there is still difficult - and even more important. In Profiler, file analysis rules allow you to find specific files across all your storage, local, SAN and NAS.…
A few posts ago in we reviewed how to turn on file analysis for drives on your servers in Profiler, but many of you have centralized file shares on NAS devices (especially NetApps and Celerras) and may want to do file analysis on Virtual Machines. In this post, we will explore how to set up file analysis for these devices.…
Hello! We've got an application that processes faxes that writes a particular type of file, ipk, to a specific directory:\program files\programname\doctransport. The problem that we are coming up against is that once we've got a queue of over about 50k ipk files, the program chokes. The administrator of the application is…
A customer has asked me for a report that lists the storage file analysis results by file type and articulates the full path of the files. Is this possible? I've searched through most of the reports and seem to be able to get either a list of files with the root directory or a list of all large files with directory path.…
I would like to utlilize the file analysis and reports to gather informaiton on our file server. The issue i am having it seems for any File Analysis rule created it can only go to 5000 items or files. i want to create a report from a file analysis rule for all files on a particular share, but seem to be limited at 5000.…
Hello, I have a cluster netapp FS3240 I try to connect Storage manager to a Netapp controller in native mode, i have no DFM netapp licence and server. I have configure Storage manager agent service with adequate crendentials authaurized to netapp shares Trusted hosts is "*" in netapp. I try with netapp root credentials,…
I would like a report that displays the individual files that are at least 1 MB and have a last access date of > 2 years. To this end I have created a file analysis rule that gives me this information with the exception that I am limited to a list of 5000 records. How can I modify this number to give me all of the records…
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